ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- 4 Arizona State University
- 2 Zhang, Yong-Hang
- 1 Alford, Terry L.
- 1 Belitsky, Andrei
- 1 Choi, Hyung Woo
- 1 Crozier, Peter A
- 1 Johnson, Shane R
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- 1 Krause, Stephen
- 1 Liu, Jingyue
- 1 Liu, Shi
- 1 Mccartney, Martha R
- 1 Menendez, Jose
- 1 Ponce, Fernando
- 1 Schroder, Dieter
- 1 Smith, David J
- 1 Tang, Dinghao
- 1 Theodore, N. David
- 1 Vasileska, Dragica
- 1 Wu, Songnan
- 1 Yu, Hongbin
- 4 English
- 4 Public
- Photovoltaics
- Materials Science
- 2 Semiconductor
- 1 CdTe
- 1 Characterization
- 1 Condensed Matter Physics
- 1 Device Processing
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- 1 Electrical Engineering
- 1 Electrical engineering
- 1 Energy
- 1 Engineering
- 1 GaAs
- 1 LED
- 1 Luminescence Refrigeration
- 1 MBE
- 1 Nanomaterial
- 1 Nucleation and growth
- 1 STEM
- 1 Solar cell
- 1 TEM
- 1 Yttrium
- 1 Zinc oxide
- 1 lifetime
- 1 light trapping
- 1 thin-film
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
Zinc oxide (ZnO) has attracted much interest during last decades as a functional material. Furthermore, ZnO is a potential material for transparent conducting oxide material competing with indium tin oxide (ITO), graphene, and carbon nanotube film. It has been known as a conductive material when doped with elements such as indium, gallium and aluminum. The solubility of those dopant elements in ZnO is still debatable; but, it is necessary to find alternative conducting materials when their form is film or nanostructure for display devices. This is a consequence of the ever increasing price of indium. In addition, a new generation …
- Contributors
- Choi, Hyung Woo, Alford, Terry L., Krause, Stephen, et al.
- Created Date
- 2012
As the world energy demand increases, semiconductor devices with high energy conversion efficiency become more and more desirable. The energy conversion consists of two distinct processes, namely energy generation and usage. In this dissertation, novel multi-junction solar cells and light emitting diodes (LEDs) are proposed and studied for high energy conversion efficiency in both processes, respectively. The first half of this dissertation discusses the practically achievable energy conversion efficiency limit of solar cells. Since the demonstration of the Si solar cell in 1954, the performance of solar cells has been improved tremendously and recently reached 41.6% energy conversion efficiency. However, …
- Contributors
- Wu, Songnan, Zhang, Yong-Hang, Menendez, Jose, et al.
- Created Date
- 2010
The research described in this dissertation involved the use of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to characterize II-VI and III-V compound semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and dilute-nitride alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and intended for photovoltaic applications. The morphology of CdTe QDs prepared by the post-annealing MBE method were characterized by various microscopy techniques including high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), and high-angle annular-dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM). Extensive observations revealed that the of QD shapes were not well-defined, and the QD size and spatial distribution were not determined by the amount of CdTe deposition. These results indicated that …
- Contributors
- Tang, Dinghao, Smith, David J, Crozier, Peter A, et al.
- Created Date
- 2014
GaAs single-junction solar cells have been studied extensively in recent years, and have reached over 28 % efficiency. Further improvement requires an optically thick but physically thin absorber to provide both large short-circuit current and high open-circuit voltage. By detailed simulation, it is concluded that ultra-thin GaAs cells with hundreds of nanometers thickness and reflective back scattering can potentially offer efficiencies greater than 30 %. The 300 nm GaAs solar cell with AlInP/Au reflective back scattering is carefully designed and demonstrates an efficiency of 19.1 %. The device performance is analyzed using the semi-analytical model with Phong distribution implemented to …
- Contributors
- Liu, Shi, Zhang, Yong-Hang, Johnson, Shane R, et al.
- Created Date
- 2015